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All things Flock – 0.5 has landed!

October 16, 2005 by in Tech with 23 Comments

A public release of the Flock social web browser is imminent. It’s coming. Are you hyped? Are you even following the breadcrumb trail back to the Flock base? We covered Flock in early September: Flock – Social Formation Browsing. A fitting title for the browser – built atop the solid Mozilla engine – being vigorously coded by Flockr’s running on nothing but blue. I was fortunate enough to try the 0.2 release. Since then, a 0.5 release is migrating across the net. [Get it? Flock / birds. Migrating / private beta testers getting an early taste. Mmm tastes like chicken.]

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The latest 0.5 release has a few minor changes from the previous version:

  • Breadcrumbs – Flocks internal social bookmarking service – has since been replaced with a tightly integrated favorites manager utilizing del.icio.us.
  • The overall browser interface has been touched up and appears to be a near finished product. Users will notice that whle browsing bookmarked pages, the ‘Star’ icon next to the address field will signal whether or not the page has been ‘Starred’ [read: bookmarked].
  • An integrated RSS viewer. Similar to Safari, Flock inserts an RSS icon in the address bar if the currently viewed site offers syndicated feeds. Raw feeds receive a clean / intuitive stylesheet for easier reading.

Not to spoil the fun, re-read our previous post concerning Flock and sit tight for the public beta release.


  • Dylan

    I know this is a stupid question, but does anybody have the setup to Flock, and is willing to send it to me? If you signed a contract, or there are 2 men in black suits with curly wires going into their ears, please don’t, I do not want you to get in to trouble, but I would just really like to try Flock out.

  • http://5thirtyone.com Derek Punsalan

    Rumor has it that if all goes well, a public beta of Flock will make its debut this Friday.

  • http://chrischaeffer.com chriSchaeffer

    This Friday?! Awesome! This is the news I need to hear. Keep us updated!

  • Dylan

    Is it gonna be different from the 0.5 release?

  • Dylan

    Another question, The Top bar, the one with the minimize, close and maximize, is that part of flock, or is that a visual style?

  • http://5thirtyone.com Derek Punsalan

    Dylan: That’s a visual style.

  • Dylan

    Are you using a msstyle, or WindowBlinds? If msstyle, would you mind sending it to me?

  • http://5thirtyone.com Derek Punsalan

    Msstyle. Grab a copy of the theme on DeviantArt.

  • Joe Anderson

    Yes!

  • Dylan

    Ok, Where will Flock be available? On their site or is it going to be sent out to email…

  • http://5thirtyone.com Derek Punsalan

    I think it’s safe to assume that a public beta release would be hosted on the Flock homepage.

  • http://gemal.dk/blog/2005/10/18/flock_social_web_browser_version_05_has_landed/index.html Gemal’s Psyched Blog

    Flock social web browser version 0.5 has landed

    A public release of the Flock social web browser is imminent. It’s coming. Are you hyped? Are you even following the breadcrumb trail back to the Flock base? We covered Flock in early September: Flock – Social Formation Browsing….

  • http://ketsugi.com Joel Pan

    If the “bookmarks” functionality uses del.icio.us, will there be an option for users who *don’t* want to have their bookmarks shared with the rest of the internet?

  • Sohail Mirza
  • Passing Trade

    Quick heads-up: the article’s links to screenshots are broken if referer sending is disabled in one’s browser.

  • http://eduardo.f2o.org/?p=175 Eduardo al día » Flock, el navegador de la Web 2.0

    [...] Además de lo anterior incluye un lector de RSS aparentemente mejor que el de Firefox, y un editor de entradas para blogs con funcionalidades WYSIWYG. Por último parece que no habrá que esperar mucho porque el rumor dice que si no hay problemas debería estar disponible la versión 0.5 al público el viernes, como comenta uno de los betatester de esta aplicación. [...]

  • Dylan

    So, is a Friday release still looking good?

    Also, What blogging services does flock support?

  • http://5thirtyone.com Derek Punsalan

    WordPress is supported. It’s on the top of the priority list. They’re working on implementing category’s into the blog editor. I’ve read of users successfully posted to Blogger / Blogspot, LiveJournal, and Drupal.

  • Dylan

    But WordPress is verry high quality, not for the average blogger. To pay for a PHP and MySQL able hosting service would cost some dough. I know their doing the invites, but how many people will they give invites to? Im not downing on Flock, but why wouldnt they start with the most common blogging systems?

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com/?p=4440 .: UNEASYsilence :. » Blog Archive » Flock has gone public

    [...] // !All things Flock – 0.5 has landed! [...]

  • goffer

    be aware, it is a horrible non intuitive skin on a firefox. yeah sure, it lets you blog to blogspot. and it lets you add bookmarks to delicious. sowhat? it also makes it self your default browser. tired of getting screwd by firefox, perhaps you should try another browser

  • goffer

    question is, should that browser be a mozilla firefox clone? probably not!

  • http://5thirtyone.com Derek Punsalan

    Goffer: The browser does not set itself as your system default. It prompts you asking if you want to set the browser as the default. It does the same thing Firefox or IE would do on an initial run. Maybe try reading through menu items?

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